Agricultural and Forestry Science

Cover crop seeder pulls triple duty for small farms

Pennsylvania farmers are increasingly interested in growing cover crops, but the time, cost and late fall harvest of corn and other crops often limit their…

Fewer aphids in organic crop fields

What's the status of the biodiversity in differently managed triticale fields? This is what the biologists at the Department of Animal Ecology & Tropical…

Studies Focus on Feed Ingredient's Effects on Levels of E. coli O157:H7 in Cattle

Known as “wet distiller's grains with solubles” (WDGS), this byproduct is sometimes used as a cattle feed ingredient. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)…

Patterns of Ancient Croplands Give Insight Into Early Hawaiian Society

The findings suggest that simple, practical decisions made by individual households were eventually adopted by the ruling class as a means to improve…

Reforestation research in Latin America helps build better forests

“Twenty years ago, we had almost no information about how to build a forest,” said Jefferson Hall, staff scientist at the Smithsonian and lead editor of the…

Forest Service unveils first comprehensive forecast on southern forests

The USDA Forest Service and the Southern Group of State Foresters released the first phase of the Southern Forest Futures Project report on Tuesday, May 17,…

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